I'm jealous of all you guys bringing home CB750's and parts, how many bloody barns are there in the US anyway?
Speaking of anyway, because the BMW R100RS is in very good mechaincal condition, there's no need for any oily work, so the "beautification" process continues. The bike has been dropped on the right hand side at one stage in it's life, there's some rash on one caliper and rocker cover on that side, and the fairing has been repaired, but the "dashboard" has a crack in it, so I decided to replace it with a new BMW part.
One of these switches is not like the other! Yep, I didn't wanna drill a hole in the new dash for the cheesey headlight switch, so I bought a new switchblock. The good thing about BMW stuff is you can still buy new parts for 30+ year old motorcycles off the shelf, and they're not as expensive as CB750 parts.
I also bought some new progressive fork springs. Last ride I noticed that the forks had sagged pretty bad, which is not unusual for bikes with big fairings.
Even with the new springs, I couldn't detect much resistance when I screwed the caps back in, so I machined up some 10mm pre-load spacers, so with the 15mm longer springs, they should jack the front up a tad.
In the 12 years that I had my previous R100RS I never had the headlight apart, and I'm pretty impressed with how easy it is to access all the electrical gubbins, it only took 5 minutes to remove the glass cover, surround, lens etc. All I have to do now is to work out where the hell the wiring for that switchblock goes!
What a boody mess! Oh well, I think I'll be wrenching, rather than riding, today............